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UI searches for space for new Chicago facility BY LAUREN ROHR STAFF WRITER
The next step for the new University-affi liated manufacturing lab Gov. Pat Quinn introduced last week is fi nding a location in Chicago, project leaders said. The Illinois Manufacturing Laboratory will serve as an independent, non-profit innovation hub that will focus on manufacturing advancement and workforce development, said University spokesman Tom Hardy in an email. Quinn announced the partnership with the University and National Center for Supercomputing Applications in his State of State address Feb. 6. In his speech, he said manufacturing has been one of Illinois’ leading growth sectors, with the creation of approximately 40,000 new jobs in the last three years; however, 140,000 job openings in Illinois remain unfi lled because of a lack of skill needed for these jobs. He said the IML will help to close the “skills gap.” “The Illinois Manufacturing Lab will make our manufacturers more competitive,” Quinn said. “Now, in our Illinois, we leave no worker behind.” Hardy said both the Urbana and Chicago campuses will benefit from the creation of this lab. The project will utilize the center’s supercomputing resources along with the Urbana campus’ workforce development training through the College of Education. It will also involve the Chicago campus’ Electronic Visualization Laboratory, a graduate research lab with a focus on computer science and art, he said. “The University of Illinois will gain additional awareness of its capabilities, expertise and value to the state, as well as new revenue, by connecting even more than it does now with a key sector of the state’s economy — the 20,000 manufacturers in Illinois who compete in local, national and global markets,” Hardy said. He said the state is investing $5 million in the project, a cost that will need to be matched by private fi rms and other outside sources. He said the project could come together within a year.
LINCOLN HALL: 100 YEARS LATER
DARYL QUITALIG, THE DAILY ILLINI
Gov. Pat Quinn rubs the nose of a bust of the Lincoln Bust in Lincoln Hall after a short tour of the building on Tuesday.
University honors president on birthday by rededicating Lincoln Hall after 100 years STAFF WRITER
PAT QUINN, Illinois governor
The University rededicated Lincoln Hall on Abraham Lincoln’s birthday Tuesday, exactly 100 years after the building’s original dedication. Ruth Watkins, dean of LAS, delivered opening remarks and said she was pleased with the renovations to the building. “The long-awaited historic restoration has created a 21st century learning environment for thousands of students,” Watkins said. She said the hall has been a great asset to the community since restoration. The ceremony also celebrated the end of two years of construction on Lincoln
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“The Illinois Manufacturing Lab will make our manufacturers more competitive.”
More online: To see a video of the
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rededication of Lincoln Hall and go inside the renovated building on a virtual tour, visit DailyIllini.com
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Hall. Gov. Pat Quinn visited the University to participate in the rededication. “It’s really special to be here,” Quinn said. “An education and higher education are not just for the elite. It’s for everybody, and that’s what the University of Illinois stands for.” Bob Tandy, construction administrator for the Lincoln Hall project, said Lincoln Hall holds souvenirs from past generations of students.
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Obama pushes for job creation plan in address BY JULIE PACE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WA SH I NGT ON — Uncompromising and politically emboldened, President Barack Obama urged a deeply divided Congress Tuesday night to embrace his plans to use government money to create jobs and strengthen the nation’s middle class. He declared Republican ideas for reducing the deficit “even worse” than the unpalatable deals Washington had to stomach during his first term. In his fi rst State of the Union address since winning re-election, Obama conceded economic revival is an “unfinished task,” but he claimed clear progress and said he prepared to build on it as he embarks on four more years in office. “We have cleared away the rubble of crisis, and we can say with renewed
confidence that the state of our union is strong,” Obama said in an hour-long address to a joint session of Congress and a television audience of millions. Yet with unemployment persistently high and consumer confidence falling, the economy remains a vulnerability for Obama and could disrupt his plans for pursuing a broader agenda, including immigration overhaul, stricter gun laws and climate change legislation. Obama also announced new steps to reduce the U.S. military footprint abroad. He had a sharp rebuke for North Korea, which launched a nuclear test just hours before his remarks, saying, “Provocations of the sort we saw last night will only isolate them further.”
Possession, making of fake identification common on campus BY MADDIE REHAYEM STAFF WRITER
CHARLES DHARAPAK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Barack Obama, flanked by Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner, of Ohio, gestures as State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday.
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Q: What did you think of the president’s State of the Union address? COMPILED BY CHRISSY PAWLOWSKI STAFF WRITER
“I like that he was very forceful on gun violence, raising minimum wage. ... He was being very straightforward about what he’s going to do.” MILAN DASGUPTA, sophomore in Engineering
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Gov. Pat Quinn, center, leads the ribbon cutting at the at the Lincoln Hall Theater on Tuesday. The ceremony that took place celebrated the 100th anniversary of the original dedication of Lincoln Hall.
“I wasn’t really too impressed — it sounded like a lot of the same. It’s just positive. It’s too unspecific.” ERIC ANDERSON, senior in Engineering
“I feel like he didn’t talk much about spending cuts. There should have been a more detailed discussion about it.” SUSHIL KUMAR, graduate student
“He stressed more on modern issues like immigration issues. He emphasized more on what he’s been saying for a while, which is good.” RAKESH KOMURAVELLI, graduate student
The Weston Hall resident who was arrested Jan. 20 for manufacturing fake IDs pleaded not guilty in court Feb. 6 and requested a jury trial. He will return to court March 19 for a pretrial conference. University police had originally investigated Arturo Ibrahim Perez-Vera’s dorm room because housing staff smelled marijuana. After searching the room, police arrested the 18-year-old on charges of not only possession of cannabis and drug paraphernalia, but also possession of fraudulent identification and manufacturing fraudulent identification. University police Sgt. Tom Geis, head of the detectives of the University police, said police found two bags of syringes for fi lling ink cartridges, a safe with a fraudulent Illinois identification card, a plastic bag with numerous blank identification cards, a template and additional fake IDs. “This is nothing new,” Geis said. “There are probably a couple (of manufacturing ID cases) a year that local police and U of I and Urbana respond to.” But fake ID manufacturing is not nearly as common as fake ID possession, Champaign police Sgt. Joe Ketchem said. He said students usually don’t manufacture IDs but order them from the Internet.
Ketchem said there are two types of fake IDs: a fraudulent ID, which is a manufactured fake with a person’s rightful name and face on it, and a misused ID, which is someone else’s actual ID. Thomas Betz, directing attorney at Student Legal Services, said that in the 26 years he has worked with students, he can’t remember a week he didn’t deal with fake ID possession. “Between fake IDs and minors in possession, they’re probably the two most common offenses you’re going to have in any college community,” he said. Although Betz described the making and distributing of fake IDs as a “fact of life” and something that went on while he was in college, the consequences for owning one are serious. Possession of a fraudulent ID is a Class 4 felony, which could result in fi ne up to $25,000 and one to three years in prison. Possession of a misused ID is a Class A misdemeanor, which could result in fi nes of $500 to $2,500 or 50 hours of community service, up to 364 days in jail, the loss of driving privileges and likely University disciplinary action. However, Betz said these are the worst-case scenarios. He said offenders usually face a $300 fine and court costs, which
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